Green's Grant is a

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in Coös County,

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. As of the 2020 census, the grant had a population of zero. The grant lies within the White Mountain National Forest. The base of the Mount Washington Auto Road is located in Green's Grant. In New Hampshire, locations, grants, townships (which are different from towns), and purchases are unincorporated portions of a county which are not part of any town and have limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited).

History

John Wentworth, British colonial governor of New Hampshire, made the grant to Lieutenant Francis Green of

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, one of the last

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s that Wentworth made to soldiers of the

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Geography

According to the

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, the grant has a total area of , of which , or 0.08%, are covered by water. The Peabody River, a north-flowing tributary of the

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, runs through the center of the grant, joined by its tributaries Nineteenmile Brook and Cowboy Brook from the east and the

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from the west. New Hampshire Route 16 follows the Peabody River through the grant, leading southward (upstream) to the height of land at Pinkham Notch in neighboring Pinkham's Grant and north to U.S. Route 2 in Gorham. The highest point in the grant is along its eastern boundary, on the lower slopes of

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, where the elevation reaches above

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Demographics

As of the 2020 census, no people lived in the grant.

References

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